Summary
Jessica Breckenridge is an experienced engineering manager specializing in SRE and DevOps with over 20 years in engineering and a decade of focused leadership in cloud platform and reliability roles. She has driven large-scale infrastructure initiatives at startups and Fortune 500s including GitHub, Yahoo, Photobucket, and Iterable, improving search reliability to 99.999% and cutting AWS COGS by around 20% through cross-org refactors and cost optimization. A hands-on technologist, she’s led object storage and ElasticSearch cleanroom refactors, built OpenStack and SaltStack-powered fleets of thousands of instances, and shipped automation for rapid server provisioning. Jessica combines team-building and technical mentorship with deep ops skill across databases, messaging, CI/CD, container orchestration, and cloud providers. Based in Michigan, she brings an operator’s pragmatism and a skunkworks mindset—launching internal prototypes and open-sourcing tooling like GitHub’s Vulcanizer to accelerate platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ferris State University